Graham456

Hard to tell from photos compared to real life, but it sure looks like a good start base coat, a bit like the colour Ian.Kirk coaches used to be moulded in,that I then treat to graining of ronseal woodstain of various colours took me years to get it right, just as Hornsby brought there’s out, but to least mine mix it with them without standing out, so I have been happy might look in to this as I have one more to do about ten years since I last did one graham

Well I never ! Thank you I never knew the HP2M had a replacement or upgrade of sorts i thought it might have K’s pedigree from the D shape axel , in 1981 I was still working in a Bristol model shop and the then new stock silver boxed kits still had the useless HP2M in the boxes,and I have never encountered this thing until now, thanks for the warning about reliability, but mine is going to be used as the finished kit with Romford (markits) runs fine and the armature has brass bearings so it should last longer than the plastic bearings the HP2M as for the X04 I am a great user of MMRC /airfix 5poles in my locos that use triang chassis, I even made a Hornsby tender drive Saint loco drive with one,

And not all of John’s posts are about his transfers if you look at his post history, I get the impression like all of he likes trains, and as a side line offers a service we need to us modellers rather than sitting in front of the TV

Just for the fun of it I ask ! do you count the footplate as the bit with seats in or still on the same bit of floor, through the door where it gets a bit warmer !😀

Perhaps it was a very short lived HP2M replacement as the 'gearbox' looks very similar. you right the front end is very similar to the HP2M with its triangular plastic gearbox and a white spoked plastic gear, but the motor is a five pole with proper bearings at each end and runs nicely at slow speeds, the gears D shaped axel hole is very Keyser based, if Keyser had put this in the kits not so many of Keyser motors would have ended up in the bin as it’s useable

HP2M =Toy motors ! Well my wife calls my trains toys ! 😂 personally I still use. MRRC 1001 to replace X04 s if kit built loco from a swap meet uses a Hornby chassis thankfull you can still find mashima,s but I don’t know what’s next when I run out

plonker alert ! I posted the wrong picture no wonder you kept telling me I had K’s dreadful HP2M I don’t I HAVE ONE OF THESE Why I posted that picture without checking what I had poached off the net thinking that was what I had with out getting the loco out of the to Finnish pile and looking rather than taking a picture of the real thing with my new I Pad and learning how to resize it

Right have a new I pad let’s see if I can post a picture to help you I D this motor ! mine is the middle one in this image and it is a five pole 80% bigger in size than the keyser motor

Don’t know if your being serious or not ! obviously he is a fellow cake monster found on here,BRM mag and in his blog http://philsworkbench.blogspot.com/

Who are you ? Phil Parker’s replacement as he’s I’ll !

If this is the problem I think you are on about.. try… packing out the fishtail with a bit of paper,to tighten the fishtail up in the socket, trim after squeezing the coupling in the socket . if only the hook’s were so simple

Just. Tea,of the wet sort ! haven’t you replaced that griddle yet so you could have some delicious Welsh cakes waiting for you, P S the aero wagon print looked very interesting , pps Bracknell was a long way to go for a plate I could have got at staplegrove, but worth it only down side was the cost at other stands far outwayed the fuel costs i just caught the back end of the show here on the isles of wight which is why I didn’t get to use the Sunday part of the ticket !

Well I suppose what you save on the cost of buying a modern M7 for the chassis ,will buy you a set of wheels ! and No Mazark rot with the old chassis, so it should be good for fifty years provided the body will last as long as the chassis will . all ways look on the bright side of life ……….theirs a song in that I seem to remember OR ! Stick with your old K’s kit that you have spent a hours if not months on to balance on its driving wheels,why did the CR put so much lineing on the thing ? not currently in seven ash with the WSR a field away but Bracknell ! enjoying ExpoEM

Well if I had known that I could have saved my self a visit to Bideford a couple of weeks ago,you could have brought it up with you !

Devcon 10 minute one of the culprits was it ! thank god for super glue, as whilst 10 minute was fast compared with the 24 hour stuff it was still a long time hold a bit in place untill it set, especially if you wanted to get on with building the kit,solder sets in seconds,it just takes awhile to build asbestos fingers,so I didn’t use epoxy much in my early kit building days